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Birth:          24 Jun 1210 The Hague, Holland
Death:          19 Jul 1234 Corbie, France
Cause of Death: killed in tournament
Burial:         Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Holland

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_IV,_Count_of_Holland
Floris IV (24 June 1210 – 19 July 1234), Count of Holland from 1222 to 1234. He was 
born at The Hague, a son of William I of Holland and his first wife, Adelaide of 
Guelders.

Floris IV succeeded his father in 1222. His regent was Baldwin of Bentheim. He 
acquired the Land of Altena. He had constant disputes with the bishop of Utrecht, 
Otto II of Lippe, but helped him against the peasants of Drenthe in 1227. Floris fought 
against the Stedingers north of Bremen in 1234.

On 19 July 1234, he was killed at a tournament in Corbie, France. He was buried at 
Rijnsburg Abbey.

Family and children[edit]


 


 Coats of Arms of the Counts of Holland.
He married before 6 December 1224 Matilde of Brabant, daughter of Duke Henry I of 
Brabant and Mathilde of Flanders also referred to as Maud of Boulogne and Alsace. 
Their children were:
1.William II, Count of Holland (1227–1256).
2.Floris de Voogd (ca. 1228–1258), Regent of Holland in 1256–1258.
3.Adelaide of Holland (ca. 1230–1284), married, in Frankfurt am Main in 1246, Jean I 
of Avesnes, Count of Hainaut. Their descendants eventually inherited Holland. She 
was Regent of Holland in 1258–1263.
4.Margaret (d. 1277), married c.?1249 to Count Herman I of Henneberg.
5.Mechtild

Parents
____ William (Willem) I (ABT 1174 - 4 Feb 1222)
VON GUELDERS Adelaide (Aleid) (Adelheid) (ABT 1186 - 12 Feb 1218)

Siblings
____ Florenz (Floris) IV (24 Jun 1210 - 19 Jul 1234)

Marriage To OF BRABANT Matilda (Mathilde) (ABT 1200 - 22 Dec 1267)
    m. BEF 6 Dec 1224 

Notes

Parents
____ Henry I (1165 - 5 Sep 1235)
D'ALSACE AND FLANDERS Matilda (Maud) (1170 - 16 Oct 1210)

Children by OF BRABANT Matilda (Mathilde) ABT 1200 - 22 Dec 1267
OF HOLLAND Adelaide (Aleida) (Alhildis) (Aleide) (ABT 1226 - 1284)

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